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Match Day Thread Saints v West Ham - K.O. 3pm Saturday 19th August

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  1. Saint Helen

    Saint Helen Well-Known Member

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    Oh dear, Jose getting a bit of a pasting by the commentators. What a shame... :emoticon-0136-giggl
     
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  2. saintsfcfan

    saintsfcfan Well-Known Member

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    Come on Saints hold on to this. Can't let this slip.
     
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    Well, that was interesting.
     
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  4. SouthamptonFCroatia

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    Pellegrino needs to instill some of that Komean's toughness to our defence, we're so soft at times
     
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  5. VVD

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    Surely we're going to win this. They're a shambles and yet somehow back in the game
     
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    What are first thoughts regarding Lemina? He loks a bit clumsy to me.
     
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  7. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Obviously wrong, it seems none of our CB's can play with each other. It took about 3 months for us to forget what Sam taught about defending. this was what the west ham vocal minority wanted though, no more defensive football. It got lost in translation and seems to have become no defending.
    Personally I think we'll have the 'Fat Spanish Waiter' in charge by November.
     
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  8. Beef

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    Doesn't help that Forster palmed it out a few feet away from goal
     
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  9. VocalMinority

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    Yes, i wanted that but I'm a saints supporter :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  10. The Ides of March

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    Not Eddie Howe, who could be more long term? However if Bilic manages to conjure up a few successive wins then everything will calm down.
     
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  11. St.Kreuzberg

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    Bloody awful goalkeeping! Think we need to be looking at a better replacement. Looks like FF is slowly becoming more and more of a liability.
     
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  12. Saintmagic

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    Good thing we just gave him a new contract
     
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  13. West Kent Saint

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    Bit PL rusty, but that's understandable. Bit of time to sharpen up.
     
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  14. Romsey_Saint

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    Still winning and they have 10. We hold all the cards.
     
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  15. Osvaldorama

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    Rating lemina, assured performance so far considering its his debut. CM is one of the more difficult positions to adapt to in this league and he's performed well. Hope for the future for sure.
    Yet again we have been extremely wasteful with our finishing
     
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  16. St.Kreuzberg

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  17. fran-MLs little camera

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    Apart from being Saints:emoticon-0107-sweat
     
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  18. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    hahaha
    I think the owners will play safe, Howe is still a bit of a risk, whereas the FSW has lots of form, I think he'd do well at West ham, we have a decent squad, far better than we have shown in the last 2 seasons, take away Payet and the emotion of the last year of Upton Park and we would've been fighting relegation, we fluked 2 wins against Burnley and Hull last season at home, and that was the difference. Our defending is, quite frankly, a joke, headless chickens would be an apt description of our CB pairings, although Collins makes us more solid, he's prone to mistakes and hasn't got the pace so never really gets a look in. And now we've downgraded our keeper from Adrian to 'England's number 1' Hart.
     
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  19. Romsey_Saint

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    JWP for SD l hope
     
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  20. greensaint

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    England's No 1 & 2 goalkeepers here. Should be a fine show.
     
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